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Description:: 12-year-old Marion was lured from school when she was told that her father Perry M. Parker had been injured. She was kidnapped by William Hickman, who kept her hostage in his apartment before he killed her and mutilated the body because of what he described as an ungovernable impulse to murder. Hickman was tracked down in Washington after spending some of the marked bills he had taken from Perry Parker as ransom money.
Date:: circa 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Edward Hickman was executed in October 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker. Mikels and the majority of other psychiatrists did not believe Hickman to be insane.
Date:: February 7, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Marion Parker poses for a photograph in a field of wild grass.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Marjorie (left) and Marion Parker, twins, wearing matching outfits with her sister circa 1924.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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